Posted on 07/22/2020 7:26:46 AM PDT by C19fan
The first ever photo of two planets orbiting a Sun-like star 309-light years from the Earth has been captured by astronomers using a ground-based telescope. The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile was used to capture the image of the two giant exoplanets orbiting the very young star. Astronomers say this image is a snapshot of an environment similar to our Solar System - but at an earlier stage in its evolution.
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I’ve read Jupiter mass objects considered as failed stars. Right on the edge of the critical tipping point but just never got there.
A brown dwarf needs to have at least 65 Jupiter masses to fuse deuterium and lithium. Hydrogen fusion requires at least 75 Jupiter masses.
Almost all the hard material that we can stand on is derivative of a dead star exploding somewhere in the past. The carbon we are made of, for example, was formed in the nuclear furnace of helium fusing in a dying star.
Amazing...and I have trouble getting a picture of a bird 30 feet away...
Good to know that there’s a back-up plan for when BLM and Jihadists, aided and abetted by Democrats, make life on Earth uninhabitable! ;)
If an Earth like planet is 1000 times bigger will all the life on this planet be 1000 times bigger as well , it would make traveling to other worlds interesting ,LOL
We are ALL stardust!.......................
If it’s 1000 times bigger, it’s not ‘Earth-like’. It’s a big rock................
I remember watching that show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydbxuR_YV0Q
Twilight Zone. The Little People.
We are all a star child.
Hard for me to contemplate things such as this when western civilization hangs in the balance.
Thanks C19fan.
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The more massive planet seems to be smaller. I wonder if it’s because it’s more distant or simply more dense. I suspect the latter. Both of the planets seem to be behind the star. Otherwise you’d expect to see only partial illumination. But it’s odd that the more massive planet seems to be more distant even though it’s actually only half the distance of the other planet from the star.
A scope usually helps.
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